'Cold Fish Soup' & Writing North: A Conversation with Adam Farrer

  • Date and time: Wednesday 19 April 2023, 5.00pm
  • Location: Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, University of York Heslington West Campus
  • Admission: This event is open to all staff, students, and the public. 

Event details

Join us for a meeting with Adam Farrer, who will speak about his debut book, Cold Fish Soup, which won the 2021 NorthBound Book Award.

A memoir in essays, Cold Fish Soup is a series of meditations on different aspects of life in the Yorkshire coastal resort town of Withernsea. During the meeting, we will be discussing Northern writing, literary identity, and the hidden lives of the East Yorkshire Coast. 

Admission is free and open to all but booking is required via this Eventbrite link.

You can purchase a copy of Cold Fish Soup from Fox Lane Books.

The Writers at York event organised in partnership with New Writing North and co-funded by White Rose College of Art and Humanities. 

Contact: Rebecca Bevington rb1371@york.ac.uk / Wiktoria Tunska wmt504@york.ac.uk